👩🏻‍🏫 Senior Lecturer in Classics/AncHist & Egyptology, University of Liverpool 📚 PhD Egyptology, Johns Hopkins University 🏛️ Fellowships: Fulbright, FAvH, FRHistS, FHEA, HRF Rylands Library 📜🔍 Graeco-Roman Egypt, Papyrology, Ancient Science 💙 Books, Astrolabeshttps://bsky.app/profile/hypatiaheuresis.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social/post/3mn6gisxhuc23¡Muchísimas gracias! 🥰 [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 May 2026 20:42 +0000at://did:plc:qdrbocfvfkxwxwueqeo7dcqz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn6gisxhuc23https://bsky.app/profile/hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social/post/3mmgxkbrddc2w🚨 NEW INTERVIEW! About a month ago, I was interviewed by Elizabeth Howell for Refractor on the Athribis astral ostraca, the earliest, largest, and most complex corpus of horoscopes from in antiquity: https://refractor.io/history/ancient-egyptian-horoscopes-ostraca-ordinary-life-augustus/ #horoscope #egyptology #astrology #astronomy #ancientscience22 May 2026 12:43 +0000at://did:plc:qdrbocfvfkxwxwueqeo7dcqz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmgxkbrddc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social/post/3mmgxfxw6422w🪐 NEW LECTURE! If you happen to be in Berlin on the 17th of June, come over to the lecture Kim Ryholt and I will be delivering for the ZODIAC Project research colloquium! Papyri, stars, and Egyptian tombs! 📜🔍 #zodiacproject #papyrology #ancientastronomy #egyptology #berlin22 May 2026 12:41 +0000at://did:plc:qdrbocfvfkxwxwueqeo7dcqz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmgxfxw6422whttps://bsky.app/profile/hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social/post/3lpjhorgkas2p‼️ NEW LECTURE! 🪐 “Heavenly Bodies: Astrological Physiognomies in Egypt and Qumran”, Marina Escolano-Poveda (Liverpool) and Kim Ryholt (Copenhagen) 📅 Wednesday, 21 May 2025 🕒 18:00 - 20:00 c.t. 📍 Institute for the History of Knowledge, Room 010, Arnimallee 10, 14195 Berlin19 May 2025 11:27 +0000at://did:plc:qdrbocfvfkxwxwueqeo7dcqz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpjhorgkas2phttps://bsky.app/profile/hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social/post/3lp77fqb4622sThis funerary cone belonged to a royal scribe called Ramose, who lived during the reign of Taharqa (25th Dynasty). The name of the king appears in a cartouche in the fourth column, followed by that of Ramose. Both are identified as mAa-xrw “justified”, indicating that they were deceased. (1/2)15 May 2025 09:32 +0000at://did:plc:qdrbocfvfkxwxwueqeo7dcqz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp77fqb4622shttps://bsky.app/profile/hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social/post/3loefg2nius25¡UN AÑO MÁS, FELIZ DÍA DE STAR WARS! 😄 Un año más, es 4 de mayo, el día de Star Wars (“May the 4th be with you”), así que si queréis decir “que la fuerza os acompañe” en egipcio a vuestros amigos, aquí tenéis cómo 😉 #StarWars #maythe4th04 May 2025 17:37 +0000at://did:plc:qdrbocfvfkxwxwueqeo7dcqz/app.bsky.feed.post/3loefg2nius25https://bsky.app/profile/hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social/post/3llp2h3wn722iA few days ago, I found a #manicule on the margin of my copy of Giambattista della Porta’s De Furtivis Literarum Notis (1563), and I asked for bibliography that would allow me to learn more about manicule typologies. Several people recommended Sherman’s Used Books. Thanks a lot! 📚 #bibliophile31 Mar 2025 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:qdrbocfvfkxwxwueqeo7dcqz/app.bsky.feed.post/3llp2h3wn722ihttps://bsky.app/profile/hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social/post/3llcktfkj6222Huge congratulations, Dr Louise O’Brien!!! 🎓🎓🎓 [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Mar 2025 19:53 +0000at://did:plc:qdrbocfvfkxwxwueqeo7dcqz/app.bsky.feed.post/3llcktfkj6222https://bsky.app/profile/hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social/post/3lkv6ggduxs2uNext week at @livancworlds.bsky.social!!! #egyptology #academia #liverpoolegyptology21 Mar 2025 12:07 +0000at://did:plc:qdrbocfvfkxwxwueqeo7dcqz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkv6ggduxs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social/post/3lks5otvu5k2w☞ I have a special thing for manicules. What was my surprise yesterday, as I was exploring my new book, when I found this little manicule! I’m in love! By the way, are there any typological studies of manicules that could allow me to date it? #bibliophile #manicules20 Mar 2025 07:16 +0000at://did:plc:qdrbocfvfkxwxwueqeo7dcqz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lks5otvu5k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social/post/3lkqf5zg6a22iToday, in Marina’s cabinet of curiosities and library, two new additions: a first edition (1563) of Giambattista della Porta’s ‘De furtivis literarum notis’, an early modern treatise on cryptography complete with three working volvelles and many diagrams; and a wax cylinder for a phonograph.19 Mar 2025 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:qdrbocfvfkxwxwueqeo7dcqz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkqf5zg6a22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social/post/3lkicknjhg227New medieval manuscript tapestry blanket! 📖 #bibliophile #bookishdecor16 Mar 2025 09:16 +0000at://did:plc:qdrbocfvfkxwxwueqeo7dcqz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkicknjhg227